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Cicero and the Constitution

We the People

CHAPTER

The Lost Language of Duties and Character Education

Sissero did think that we have a duty to moderate our temper and our expectations and our thoughts because it would align us with the harmonies of the universe. That's kind of fallen out of our discourse in a rights-oriented age. Supreme Court decisions that said that you can't teach religion appropriately which made it difficult to teach some of these texts. A new new me generation ethos of feeling good rather than being good but why did this language of duties and character education fall out of the curriculum?

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